Plainville, IN 47568 Frost Dates
Plainville, IN: when does the frost end?
Around 04/09 is the usual last spring frost, about 224 days away. Fall's first freeze usually shows up around 10/25, roughly 197 days after the last spring frost.
Plainville sits in USDA Zone 6b (-5 to 0°F average annual minimum). The dates above are NOAA's 1991-2020 normal at the nearest reporting station, a 30-year average, not a forecast.
Stretching the season past the first frost
With roughly 8 weeks until Plainville's first fall frost, a row cover or cold frame is what stretches the last few weeks of harvest here.
How much risk comes with planting early here
04/09 is the middle of 30 years of NOAA records, not a promise. Getting tender plants in by 03/27 carries real risk, frost has hit that late in about 9 of 10 years here. Wait until 04/25 and only about 1 year in 10 sees frost after that.
Plainville against the rest of the dataset
About 197 days separate Plainville's last and first frost, putting it 18,790 of 40,283 ZIP codes nationally. Within IN, it ranks 147 of 927.
Learn more
Before leaning on 47568's figures: zone vs. frost date explains why Zone 6b and Plainville's frost date answer different questions, while the frost range explains how to read the range around Plainville's dates instead of trusting one.